EnorMouse wrote:
As I have in the past had problems with Junk filters producing false
positives and in one particular case hiding an urgently needed email in
the junk folder I do not use them.
My old main email address has been out there for quite a few years and
the amount of junk that I receive is staggering. To handle this I have
created a large number of filters on this account and a set of junk
folders into which it is transferred.
By using different junk folders for different types of junk, I know that
I can delete it without having to review it - anything with Viagra or
Cialis (in their many and varied spellings) in the 'Subject' or 'From'
for example. Other filers and folders need to be checked, for example
anything that does not have my account name in the 'To' or 'Cc' gets
sent to a folder called 'Circulars'. Most of these are junk but
occasionally I will get a genuine circular where the Bcc feature has
been used.
I have some things I just delete without ever moving, too. But I haven't had a
problem with 2.0.x yet, and I put a bunch of mail, news, and RSS feeds through
many filters.
So I have a lot of filters handling a lot of junk in several different
ways. They were all working fine before my upgrade to SM 2. I am
currently on SM 2.0.3 and the problems remain the same.
Problem 1: Sometimes when I restart SM, particularly after a power down,
the 'Enabled' box next to a number of filers becomes unticked. The
selection of filters that this happens on seems to be random and changes
each time it happens, both in terms of the number and choice of filters
effected.
Not seen.
Problem 2: A lot of the time, even though all my filter are set up to
run 'Checking Mail or Manually Run' I find items in the account Inbox
which will be correctly moved when I run the 'Run Filters on Folder'
manually. So far I have not identified if this relates to one
particular filter or a number of them. My impression is that it tends
to be filters which are looking into the body of the emails.
Again, not seen. And I have a few early filters in my chain which do
unconditionally save messages with certain things in the body.
Problem 3: When saving filers I regularly get an error box stating "This
filter cannot be saved because some search terms are invalid in the
current context." No other information as to which search term is at
fault is provided. One would be inclined to think that this would relate
to the search term just added, but even if I delete them I continue to
get the same message. If I continue to click on the Save button and OK
the error message, it will normally save the filter and it works OK.
Accordingly I rarely bother to try to identify which search term is at
fault or why.
I have never seen that. Are you using custom header fields? I use a few, to
catch things coming from mailing lists.
Anyone out there using filters a fair bit and encountering anything like
this?
No, I haven't seen the problem, although I'm certainly watching for it now. Do
you use any particular extensions which might contribute? The only thing I run
is autofill forms, and that's a browser rather than mail thing.
--
Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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